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Muslims join Buddhist, Christian fighters to topple Myanmar’s military
Al Jazeera, 19 October Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town still under the control of the Myanmar military – their adversary. While this is a familiar sight in the region, where the struggle against the military […]
Western volunteers join the battle against Myanmar’s military regime
Al Jazeera, 17 May 2024 An ex-British soldier and an American fighter are among a small but growing number of foreigners training and fighting alongside anti-coup forces in the war against Myanmar’s military regime. The volunteers say they were inspired by Myanmar’s resistance, which has stood up to one of the most brutal and well-equipped […]
In the targets of the junta: life and war inside rebel-held Myanmar
The Observer / Guardian, 4 June 2023 On a busy strip in eastern Myanmar, restaurants with bomb shelters serve sizzling plates of beef washed down with Belgian beer and French wine. Teenagers mingle in snooker halls, women relax in beauty salons and revolutionaries get inked in tattoo parlours. From dawn, steaming bowls of noodle soup are […]
Defections from Myanmar military slow as generals tighten grip
Al Jazeera, 7 March 2023 Mizoram, India – Aung Pyae paces outside the hillside clinic on India’s remote border with Myanmar. The crackle of gunfire between his former comrades in the military and pro-democracy fighters a few hundred metres away in his homeland has eased, and all Aung Pyae can hear now are the moans of […]
Lorcan Lovett 
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